Comments on: How To Dual Boot Windows XP And Vista

By: tpward

tpward — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:36:46 +0000

I have a Dell workstation running XP 64 I have added a second HDD and have installed Vista 64
Have configured to Domain with the same name in Vista & XP all works well in Vista however when booting in XP trying to login as a users domin cannot be found? Howevere login as local administrator and can see domain?

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:47:03 +0000

@David: If you install Win XP first, follow by Vista, you will not have this problem. This issue occurs mainly because there is a mix up in the boot sequence. You will have to edit the boot.ini to fix the problem.

Check out this article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022/) on how to edit the boot.ini file.

By: Damien

Damien — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:47:00 +0000

Check out this article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/289022/) on how to edit the boot.ini file.

By: David

David — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:45:01 +0000

I installed vista ultimate 32 bit 1st and then installed xp. I downloaded and installed easybcd on Vista and created the option for xp. When I select vista it works great but xp gives the following error: “\system32\hal.dll. Please re=install a copy of the above file.”

I tried to reinstall it by booting with the xp cd, running the repair utility, and expand the hal.dll file from the xp cd over to the d drive (where xp is installed) with no luck. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks!!

By: David

David — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:45:00 +0000

I installed vista ultimate 32 bit 1st and then installed xp. I downloaded and installed easybcd on Vista and created the option for xp. When I select vista it works great but xp gives the following error: “system32hal.dll. Please re=install a copy of the above file.”

Thanks!!

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:42:20 +0000

@Jeune: This link should be useful to you.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:42:00 +0000

@Jeune: This link should be useful to you.

By: Jeune

Jeune — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:45:17 +0000

I am not that techie type but can I use Verbatim mediastation external hard drive for dual booting? I have vista on laptop and could I use my external hard drive for booting XP? Can you enlighten me with this? I hope you get my question LOL

By: Jeune

Jeune — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:45:00 +0000

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:27:36 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:27:00 +0000

thanks for the info. that looks like what i need. I’ll let you know how it works out. This seems like the best tech site ever and is now in my favorites. And thankyou again!!!

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:43:59 +0000

Your main problem is that the Win XP installer disc does not detect the SATA drive. What you should do is to use nlite and create a custom copy of the WinXP installer disc with the SATA driver included. You can check out this article for more detail on nlite.

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:43:00 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:01:29 +0000

I have tried everything as directed to dual boot vista with xp when vista is installed first. The problem i am running into is that my sata hdd is not found by the xp install. I partitioned correctly using vista disk management and formatted the xp partition using ntfs file system. the trouble is, like i said when i go to install xp it says no hdd found. is there a way to do this on a sata drive? when hitting f6 to install 3rd party drivers it only gives me the option of using a floppy and there is no floppy drive on my machine and no way to use a ribbon cable. any help would be greatly appreciated!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:01:00 +0000

By: Mari

Mari — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:48:10 +0000

Vista was originally supposed to ship with a new file system, “WinFS”, based on a relational database. This was to be one of the three core “pillars” of Vista. As the release schedule kept dragging out, WinFS was dropped, along with a number of other core components. Some of these made it into Windows 7, but WinFS appears to be dead.

There is a 64-bit version of Windows XP (“x64″), and you can install (32-bit) Windows XP on 64-bit systems just fine. Many people do this, due to the problems getting 64-bit drivers for many devices. You won’t be taking advantage of 64-bit addressing, but most applications don’t benefit from it anyway.

By: Mari

Mari — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:48:00 +0000

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:17:35 +0000

Truthfully, I have not tried the 64-bit version of XP and Vista, so I don’t know if they are working the same as 32-bit. Theoretically, they should be the same, but I might be wrong on this.

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:17:00 +0000

Truthfully, I have not tried the 64-bit version of XP and Vista, so I don’t know if they are working the same as 32-bit. Theoretically, they should be the same, but I might be wrong on this.